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appendice flexili, multiarticulata, utrinque instructo (licet nonnullis hae 

 appendices desunt — Apocrypta perplexa, Coq.). Fcemince maudibulis anten- 

 nisque simplicibus. 



" The aforesaid Sycophagides, together with their near allies the gall- 

 feeders (Cecidophagides), as characterised by Linnaeus in his ' Systema 

 Naturae ' (6th edit. 1748), and by Fabricius in his ' Systema Piezatorum ' 

 (pp. 143, 146), appertaining alike to the Phytiphaga, the aphidivorous and 

 other parasitic Cynipida not comprised under that category would constitute 

 an osculant group (Heterophagides) leading to the Entomophaga, as already 

 suggested, including those addicted to other propensities, as cited by 

 Latreille (' Figites, nonnulli saltern, excrementis humanis delectantur,' 1 Gen. 

 Crus. et Ins., iv., p. 19)." 



Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited leaf- rosette galls of Cecidomyia violce, F. Low, 

 found in Epping Forest on Sept. 23rd last by Mr. Henry Corder on Viola 

 sylvatica. Dr. Low described the gnat as new in 1881 (Verh. z.-b. Ges. 

 Wien, xxx. 34), from specimens bred from similarly formed galls on Viola 

 tricolor. Mr. Fitch also exhibited a bright red bean-like Aphis gall on a 

 pinna of Pistacia Lentiscus from Cannes, received from Dr. Cobbold ; its 

 maker is probably Aploneura lentisci, Licht. ? (cf. Ann. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 

 vii. 471-4). A curious new cecidomyideous gall 

 on the woody twigs of Juniperm was also ex- 

 hibited. Mr. Fitch had received specimens two 

 days previously from Mr. W. C. Boyd from Men- 

 tone ; the galls were very succulent, and greatly 

 resembled a cluster of full-fed Ixodes or miniature 

 brown leather pouches attached round the juniper 

 twig, the bunch consisting of galls extending to 

 the length of an inch along the twig ; the galls 

 were easily detached from the twig at their bases, 

 and the orange-red gnat larvae liberated, hence 

 they probably undergo their metamorphoses in 

 the ground. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited specimens of Pimelia angulata, Fabr., obtained 

 by Mr. H. B. Forman in the temple of the Sphinx, near the Pyramids of 



Ghizeh, Egypt. 



Papers read. 



Mr. A. S. Olliff read a memoir " On a small collection of Clavicorn 

 Coleoptera from North Borneo "; the specimens were collected by Mr. W. B. 

 Pryer, and consisted of twenty-one species, twelve of which were described 

 as new to science. 



Mr. P. Cameron communicated some " Descriptions of new Genera and 

 Species of Hymenoptera." These included nine species from the Sandwich 

 Islands collected by the Kev. T. Blackburn, who has now left the locality ; 



